Swamiji
With his band of followers - they were in the next carriage to mine on the Blue Mountain Railway which travels from Ooty to Mettupalayam in Tamil Nadu.
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (Tamil: நீலகிரி மலை ரயில்) is a railway in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908, and was initially operated by the Madras Railway. The railway still relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR comes under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Salem Division. In July 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the...
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World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the site then became known as "Mountain Railways of India.
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India 2014.Madhopur.Jan Shatabadi Express to Bharatpur.train station.compressed
Railways are a part of India's soul since 1853 thanks to the British. Tour itinerary included the Jan Shatabadi Express to Bharatpur (Jaipur to Agra fort line) out of Sawai Madhopur RR station to cut down on road travel time to Agra.
Shatabdi Express trains are a series of fast (called superfast in India) passenger trains operated by Indian Railways to connect Metro cities with other cities important for tourism, pilgrimage or business.
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was an early am departure, and interesting watching the station come to life as trains came in. Also a reminder of daily Indian life passing families awakening from their sleep under blankets in the entry to the station as we came in.
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Rajdhani or Duronto or Shatabdi...!!
12041 Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shatabdi Express passes Kamarkundu with Siliguri's WDP4D 40120 at its lead.
The coach in front is of NFR's LHB AC III Coach which may have came to Lilluah Workshop for Periodic Overhauling,which is returning to its Base Coach Depot.
This train came with another LHB Rajdhani's AC Three tire coach for Overhauling.
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Duronto livered coach in between is of Chandigarh-Amritsar Duronto which was transfered to North Frontier's New Jalpaiguri's Coach Depot when the train was being innaugarted,as Chandigarh-Amritsar Duronto didn't needed that many Coaches.
The locomotive in front is a Dual cab EMD type loco which is the most effective and the recently developed loco from DLW,Varanasi n RDSO,Lucknow.
Silliguri Shed got these type of locomotive for this Shatabdi itself as this shatabdi needs to be driven in Short Hood Faced Mode and this loco has cab in both Side.
About this SHatabdi,this shatabdi is the second longest travelling Shatabdi in IR after Bhopal SHatabdi and is the fastest Connectivity between Kolkata and New Jalpaiguri..!!
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